Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Senate. All his life he has been a voluble liberal. Senator Dickinson last week quoted to the Senate some Whitmanesque Tugwelliana, written by the young professor when he was 24. It began: I am strong, I am big and well-made, I am muscled and lean and nervous. . . . It ended: I am sick of a nation's stenches I am&ick of propertied Czars. . . . I have dreamed my great dream of their passing, I have gathered my tools and my charts; My plans are fashioned and practical; I shall roll up my sleeves-make America over...
...Benito Mussolini's show and small limelight did he give Adolf Hitler. Up to the very morning of their meeting in Venice last week both were nervous as tomcats. Each seemed to fear some hitch or double-cross. Each whipped his Press into absolute silence. Round about Venice, which Il Duce had not visited for eleven years, citizens, puzzled by elaborate preparations for they knew not what, jumped to a conclusion that Crown Prince Umberto was coming. Germans supposed their Chancellor was still in the Fatherland until their Press told them that he was already soaring over the Alps...
Most writers stop writing long before they reach Knut Hamsun's age (73). But readers who feel nervous about an old man's maunderings need not hesitate to pick up Author Hamsun's latest and perhaps last book. Though The Road Leads On will not unduly excite a world which still remembers his monumental Growth of the Soil (1917), it would be a worthy and happy ending to a great career. Author Hamsun may lay down his pen in the consciousness that he has not overstayed either his welcome or his powers...
Vienna, June 10--Bomb outrages by Terrorists seeking to overthrow the Fascist Government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss left Vienna in a state of high nervous tension today, with further violence feared...
...building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...